Pitch etiquette

[dna]

This was my pitch at the Caravan & Camping club site Sandringham. A warden showed me to the pitch but I had to get out and look closely at the grass to spot the very faded lines showing where the van should be parked. The rest of the pitches fill up after Id taken the picture. Trying to maintain etiquette was actually difficult without clear lines but as everyone was friendly it was a great stay

 

[Stealaway]

I don't blame you for doing your own thing, how on earth do dump your toilet and waste water ? Do you pay to do ? Expect rate payers to provide facilities foc . Or do you dump it in the hedge ,road drains, or sea, if you don't go on campsites ?

Every three or four days you are bound to come across a public loo (app available) to empty the cassette. Water is available in many locations especially harbours and often available at Morrisons fuel stations especially in Scotland

 

[Tony50]

Every three or four days you are bound to come across a public loo (app available) to empty the cassette. Water is available in many locations especially harbours and often available at Morrisons fuel stations especially in Scotland

Great just what I like (not) using Public loos.

 

[Stealaway]

Great just what I like (not) using Public loos.

I only use them for emptying the cassette.
I have a 5* loo onboard

 

[Northernraider]

Great just what I like (not) using Public loos.

Psst


i have news for you


A campsite toilet IS a public loo.

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[Tony50]

Psst


i have news for you


A campsite toilet IS a public loo.

Does that make it right,?

 

[Northernraider]

Does that make it right,?

I dont know you're the one that said you don't like public loos


As for emptying a cassette in to one absolutely. Its no different from 10 folk using the toilet other than ot takes less time.

 

[Tony50]

I dont know you're the one that said you don't like public loos


As for emptying a cassette in to one absolutely. Its no different from 10 folk using the toilet other than ot takes less time.

I still think it's incorrect, as for saying you have paid plenty of tax , vat , this country is in debt, it's like saying I'm entitled to this and that on the NHS, the money you and I paid is gone , it's those in work who are paying for us as for our buying fuel etc. That's a pittance ,

 

[Northernraider]

I still think it's incorrect, as for saying you have paid plenty of tax , vat , this country is in debt, it's like saying I'm entitled to this and that on the NHS, the money you and I paid is gone , it's those in work who are paying for us as for our buying fuel etc. That's a pittance ,

Sorry i disagree. This country is in debt because people keep voting for the wrong people to run it when its clear they couldn't run a bath. Those in work maybe paying for you but they sure are not paying for me as for the NHS ive paid national insurance for that and still am

 

[James-Alex]

My idea of having a good holiday. Same German, English, Belgian and French on a French aire every year. We party, play Pétanque, here is a music evening.
Sitting quietly in the corner of a field with a book is not for us.

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Looks great where is it? I doubt will ever get the chance to go

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[Conal]

On a related point; on holiday with a group of fellow Morris Minor owners in Belgium, in a Dutch owned campsite, I asked a cyclist what his phone ap was as I could see him checking his route on it. We were in a busy bar and, before telling me, he loudly suggested I should learn to speak ”the language”.
In no particular order three thoughts went through my mind.
Which language - French (his), Dutch (Flemish) or German?
French - I have tried for many many years - tapes, CDs, sleep learning etc..and I am useless at it.
Lastly, and more appropriately for this thread, if my wife wasn’t with me, he would have got a mouthful…
I actually agreed with him, but like others mentioned on the thread, he could have been less rude.

 

[Plumb]

I dont know you're the one that said you don't like public loos


As for emptying a cassette in to one absolutely. Its no different from 10 folk using the toilet other than ot takes less time.

Depends whether you’ve had a curry or not !

 

[Folkranger]

Child free sites whenever possible

Dog free sites for me, unfortunately there aren't many.

 

[Folkranger]

We now look for adults only sites or CLs etc where there’s no entertainment for children , I’m not a grumpy old bugger but on the other hand

I think you are. I do however think sites out of season with no kids on seem so sterile, a few kids playing brings them to life. Yes, I agree with the OP that there are inconsiderate "campers" these days. I suppose reality is catching up to our pastime where we go to escape from it.

 

[Folkranger]

Children are like farts - Love your own, hate other people's.

Some.
Children that is, not farts.

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[Folkranger]

No. Cat people are odd

I resemble that remark!

 

[Folkranger]

We’ve only been at this game for 5 years but this is the first year we’ve gone and bought a windbreak,to discourage dogs,kids from getting too close. Lots of new owners don’t seem to have any manners,I wonder if they are always like it or does a campsite bring out the worst in them.

Always had a wind break.....but for wind and a little visual privacy

 

[Langtoftlad]

Fixed that for you.


Thank crunchie im an FLT , id hate to be judged by this lot.

That's another reason id avoid sites , i park up away from everyone as i like my music , i don't like to hear everyone's cupboards open and close aswell as their cassette flap and i don't want to have to always stop my dogs from speaking , playing and expressing themselves.
Folk standing whining about how its too hot or too cold or what other mediocre thing they gas on about to each other over hedges and windbreaks can be just as annoying as a dog barking or a child playing to me.

So park near me at yer own risk

And yet - when folk of a similar attitude to yours park nearby, you're quite inclusive.
But humans are basically territorial... be it on an FLT beach, or a commercial site.
So are all animals, stay out of there space and they'll ignore you [apart from curiosity] but they'll react if you invade their space.

 

[Folkranger]

he could have been less rude.

But he was French!

 

[Larby]

Looks great where is it? I doubt will ever get the chance to go

South of Royan at Montalivet.
Should be there now but wife had her annual medical review put back, then a blood test.
Hope to be there this time next week

Have to beware of Crocodiles though

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[Vanderek]

I'm on a site in France ,12 cyclists have turned up with small tents, I heard a strange noise the other side of the hedge, ............a young American girl from the cycle group is scrubbing a chopping board on the ground under a running tap...I though I ought to explain that the drain hole next to her board is the outlet....she is kneeling in the chemical emptying point........I showed her inside the block the sinks with hot water just 10 ft away

 

[Conal]

Larby where did you get your Morris Minor choke cable “keeper outer” from? I want one!

 

[Larby]

Larby where did you get your Morris Minor choke cable “keeper outer” from? I want one!

I don’t have Morris Minor or choke cable.

 

[TCG]

If im somewhere with no aires to dump then i simply don't use the cassette. I bag and bin solids same as the dogs and i use a bottle for fluids and dispose of in drain or sea or shrubbery. Grey water goes down a drain . Ive paid plenty tax in my life and still do on fuel etc, vat etc so rate payers aren't paying for me

If im somewhere with no aires to dump then i simply don't use the cassette. I bag and bin solids same as the dogs and i use a bottle for fluids and dispose of in drain or sea or shrubbery. Grey water goes down a drain . Ive paid plenty tax in my life and still do on fuel etc, vat etc so rate payers aren't paying for me

sorry Cam, i follow your travels, but the day i have to shit in a bag is the day i give up.... living the dream !!!

 

[Northernraider]

sorry Cam, i follow your travels, but the day i have to shit in a bag is the day i give up.... living the dream !!!

Its no different from shitting in the toilet the bag lines the bowl do the business tie the bag ,put in bin . Its actually far easier than trying to empty a full cassette.

To be honest i preferred it to the point if i had completed the vario build it wouldnt have had a cassette toilet fitted.

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[Plumb]

Its no different from shitting in the toilet the bag lines the bowl do the business tie the bag ,put in bin . Its actually far easier than trying to empty a full cassette.

To be honest i preferred it to the point if i had completed the vario build it wouldnt have had a cassette toilet fitted.

This could be developing into the mother of all toilet threads , Northernraider you could be on to something here ! What about resealable bags just pop them into the fridge ?
Also what about Camper’s Pampers it’s got a certain Ring about it ?

 

[Korova]

Anyone else get annoyed by the people who pitch up and put a TV outside under the awning? And its on even when they're not watching it? Seen a few lately in France and Spain. Worst one was in Brighton, camper van but the TV was inside this time and they sat outside, about 8 feet away from it, watching some X factor type programme, you could hear it 4 pitches away.

 

[uzsnowdrop]

On a related point; on holiday with a group of fellow Morris Minor owners in Belgium, in a Dutch owned campsite, I asked a cyclist what his phone ap was as I could see him checking his route on it. We were in a busy bar and, before telling me, he loudly suggested I should learn to speak ”the language”.
In no particular order three thoughts went through my mind.
Which language - French (his), Dutch (Flemish) or German?
French - I have tried for many many years - tapes, CDs, sleep learning etc..and I am useless at it.
Lastly, and more appropriately for this thread, if my wife wasn’t with me, he would have got a mouthful…
I actually agreed with him, but like others mentioned on the thread, he could have been less rude.

Son-in laws Dutch, when he speaks it it sounds like a schoolboy spitting contest…
No offence dutchies.

 

[nicholsong]

Son-in laws Dutch, when he speaks it it sounds like a schoolboy spitting contest…
No offence dutchies.

I started to learn Dutch when working for Philips and visiting Eindhoven often.

When I spoke in Dutch and they could hear my English accent they replied in English, even tram drivers. I gave up.

I like the Dutch and they have a similar sense of humour to the English.

 

[uzsnowdrop]

Anyone else get annoyed by the people who pitch up and put a TV outside under the awning? And its on even when they're not watching it? Seen a few lately in France and Spain. Worst one was in Brighton, camper van but the TV was inside this time and they sat outside, about 8 feet away from it, watching some X factor type programme, you could hear it 4 pitches away.

I had to go over to our friends van in Spain and tell them to turn their tv down. Windows open, hot day, She’s mostly deaf and didnt know the volume was huge, unfortunately they were watching ‘legend’ about the Krayvtwins, all you could hear was ‘F’ and ‘C’ , still laugh about it

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